Fandom Snowflake Challenge #1: "Icebreaker"

[switchbladeeyes]

Happy New Year! 🎊

Time for one of my favorite fannish events, the Fandom Snowflake Challenge (snowflake_challenge), running through January!

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Hello there! I enjoy writing fan fiction and chatting about fannish interests.

I only participate in low/no pressure fandom events and the Fandom Snowflake Challenge meets that requirement. 😁 I particularly love it because it provides a great opportunity to see what fun, creative, and interesting stuff folks are doing across all kinds of fandoms.

While I have a lot of interests, I only participate actively in a couple of very tiny fandoms (at present, mainly Forever Knight and Grantchester).

But I enjoy reading about what other people are doing fannishly even if I'm not otherwise involved in fan fiction or communities related to other fandoms. So what I hope to gain is learning about and exploring other people's fannish interests as well as sharing my own. 😊

Comments

[florianschild]

I agree, the low/no pressure events are the best. :)

Thank you for being part of the Snowflake Challenge team!

[switchbladeeyes]

Very happy to contribute as best I can! 😊

[potentiality_26]

Your perspective and reasons for participating are lovely <3

[switchbladeeyes]

Thank you!

[green]

OMG I was JUST in another person's post saying the same about low/no pressure. It's such a great event.

[switchbladeeyes]

I have a much easier time showing up for the low/no pressure events because I don't get anxious about expectations or letting anyone down.

[green]

I feel that. I feel pressure too easily, and it gives me so much anxiety.

[melagan]

I just started watching Grantchester!
I'm as far as season 4 and I love it.
Oh, I should probably add that I am here via the snowflake challenge.

[switchbladeeyes]

I hope you continue to love it! I started watching it about a year ago and then got more "fannishly" into it over the summer and wrote some fics.

Who are your favorite characters so far?

Mine are Leonard and Mrs. C (but I love them all, TBH).

And Daniel/Leonard is totally my OTP 😁

[melagan]

I'm fond of all the characters. What I love is the way they interact with each other.

[huxleyenne]

Low pressure events are great. It's like being motivated to do more without the added stress of trying to accomplish too much all at once.

[switchbladeeyes]

Absolutely!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Hello there! I enjoy writing fan fiction and chatting about fannish interests.<<

Do you post full content on Dreamwidth?

>> I only participate actively in a couple of very tiny fandoms (at present, mainly Forever Knight and Grantchester).<<

There are several comms devoted to small fandoms, like smallfandomfest. tvfanfiction is a fairly new community. allbingo posts a new fest each month, and anyone can volunteer to run one for their favorite fandom(s).

Re: Thoughts

[switchbladeeyes]

Thanks for the suggestions!

[mywitch]

Nice to meet you! I also enjoy learning about different fandoms and I love the passion people show about their favorites. Happy 2026!